On 15/12/2009 11:23, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Karen Tracey wrote:
In testing some existing code with the 2.7 alpha release, I've run into:
TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing
when the existing code tries to pass unicode objects to hashlib.sha1 and
hashlib.md5. This is, I believe, due to changes made for issue 3745:
http://bugs.python.org/issue3745
The issue states the need to reject unencoded strings based on the fact that
one backend implementation (openssl) refused to accept them while another
(_sha256) assumed a utf-8 encoding. The thing is, I cannot observe any such
difference using Python 2.5 or 2.6. Instead of what is shown in the ticket
(which was done on a Python 3, I believe) I see, when I adjust the demo test
to use Python 2 syntax for "unencoded strings":
I think this was a misunderstanding during the issue 3745 processing:
the patch should not have been backported to trunk at all.
For Python 3.x, the change was correct. For 2.x, a -3 warning
would have been a better fit.
Note that the non-OpenSSL SHA et al. modules have never defaulted to
encoding to UTF-8 in Python 2.x. Python 2.x uses ASCII as default
encoding. Only Python 3.x uses UTF-8 as default encoding.
Doesn't Python 3 use the *platform* encoding as the default (which
happens to be UTF-8 on sensible systems but is something truly horrible
like CP1250 on Windows)? (So *assuming* a default encoding of UTF-8 is
still incorrect on Python 3 if we are being consistent with other IO
behaviour.)
All the best,
Michael
I've added a note to the issue and reopened it.
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